Brodie, William, RSA
1815 – 1881
William Brodie was the son of a shipmaster and moved to Aberdeen as a child. He was initially apprenticed as a plumber and studied in the evenings at the Mechanics' Institution. He eventually decided upon a career as an artist and began to paint portraits and model medallion portraits in wax. He moved to Edinburgh in circa 1847 and began to sculpt on a larger scale studying for four years at the Trustees Academy. In circa 1853 he travelled to Rome and studied under Laurence Macdonald. He produced busts of men, women and children and many public commissions, most popularly Greyfriars Bobby Fountain (1872). He exhibited prolifically at the RSA from 1847 until 1881. He became an Associate Member of the RSA in 1852 and a Royal Scottish Academician in 1859.
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